Re: [boost] [Fibers] Performance

Subject: Re: [boost] [Fibers] Performance
From: Nat Goodspeed (nat_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-01-15 16:34:55

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Hartmut Kaiser
<hartmut.kaiser_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Wake up Oliver - you're up to the forefront of parallel computing and you
> don't realize it!
>
> Boost has to define the future of C++ libraries (as imposed on us by the
> computer architectures to come), it has not to focus on covering the past.
> Let's not let this opportunity slip.

I can absolutely agree with this. My divergence is with your previous
remark that Boost.Fiber can *only* be justified by its performance.

Boost.Fiber has *potential future* performance benefits. It has
*present* semantic benefits.